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Thanks for writing Glider! I adored that game as a kid and was part of how the possibilities of computing began to captivate my attention.

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Back when Elon started PayPal, SaaS was the frontier!

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Glad to see our universities making progress in this important area of national security.

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By this logic, the title would be equally correct if they wrote "Jimmy Buffet Dies After Cruise Robotaxi Blocked Ambulance"

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It seems weird that Wired focuses on the negative edge case here. At Vicarious we use OptionImpact to make sure everyone is paid fairly, and I imagine that's the vast majority of users. Deceiving someone into taking a lowball salary is a very shortsighted way to run a business, and I have trouble believing any well-run company actually does this.

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We talked about releasing more comprehensive proof of concept code, but ultimately decided against it. While helpful for other researchers, offering anyone on the internet a ready-to-use arbitrary captcha breaker seemed like a net-negative for society.

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9 lat temudiscuss

There are a few papers up on the site already and some more coming. As a business, publications aren't really the KPIs we prioritize (vs an academic-style lab like DM or OAI).

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9 lat temudiscuss

Here's a link to the paper as well (ICML 2017 preprint)

https://www.vicarious.com/img/icml2017-schemas.pdf

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9 lat temudiscuss

Some additional results on other games in the blog post:

https://www.vicarious.com/general-game-playing-with-schema-n...

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11 lat temudiscuss

http://www.vicarious.com

AI research

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These are great highlights, although your second point from [1] is a bit misleading. Humans have a 5% error rate because the average person can't differentiate between 150 different breeds of dogs and other similar nonsense.

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12 lat temudiscuss

Vicarious - Silicon Valley, CA.

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Our long term goal is to build machines that exceed human intelligence. We are passionate about changing the world with science and software, and we are looking for exceptional people to join us in that mission.

Available roles:

  - Machine Learning Researcher
  - Computer Vision Researcher
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We have raised ~$70M in funding and are not constrained by publication, grant applications, or product development cycles. At Vicarious, there is room to develop new approaches that would otherwise not be supported in academia or industry. In the long term, our work will push forward the AI and robotics revolutions.

Learn more: http://vicarious.com/

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12 lat temudiscuss

When was the first Macintosh computer released?

1467 B.C.

Needs some work...

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12 lat temudiscuss

This is a very long video. What was nice in it? Can you give some highlights?

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12 lat temudiscuss

Digging in to the journal article, the technique they use can only scale to captchas with 8 characters or less, so having a longer word is a simple fix.

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We work on hard stuff (http://vicarious.com/) and we're always looking for exceptional people

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13 lat temudiscuss

Ha, nice demo presentation.

One minor piece of feedback: add slide number out of total below the slide.

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14 lat temudiscuss

We think so (http://vicarious.com/), but we are obviously biased.

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14 lat temudiscuss

IIRC, the reasons were:

- Depending on how you read it, Last Invention can sound really ominous.

- LI is a bit of a mouthful to say, whereas Vicarious is a single word

- People generally responded better to Vicarious as a name when we asked around

Never heard of The Last One...

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14 lat temudiscuss

We seriously considered Last Invention as an alternative name, and actually still own lastinvention.com. For a bunch of reasons, we decided on Vicarious instead. :)

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